With the recent publication of
Xolela Mangcu’s (2012) biography of Steve Biko, and in light of the
proliferating use of Biko’s name as a ‘master-signifier’ in post-apartheid
discourse, it becomes possible to plot several versions of the Biko legacy.
More important perhaps than an analysis of the various identifications and
narrative agendas identifications that emerge in the key biographical accounts
of Biko’s life is the question of the relationship between the multiple
contemporary versions of Biko. Added to this is the question of how ‘creative
non-fiction’ might serve as a methodological resource that aids us in returning
to key narrative events in the various accounts of Biko’s life.
Derek Hook is a lecturer in Psychosocial Studies
at Birkbeck College, University of London; a visiting associate professor in
Psychology at Wits University in South Africa; and an associate lecturer in
Social Psychology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Foucault, Psychology and the Analytics
of Power (2007), A
Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial (2011) and of the
forthcoming (Post)apartheid
Conditions (2013). A trainee psychoanalyst at the Centre for
Freudian Analysis and Research, Derek is also a lead researcher in the Apartheid
Archive Project based at Wits University
Date: 14th May 2013
Time: 13h00-14h00
Venue: Emthonjeni Auditorium
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